Pierce Hammerstein.
Criterion spotlights another personal favorite.This one is Robert Bressons 1959 highbrow take on the ways of pick-pocketing. The main character Michel, looks more churchgoer than ready grifter,his doe-eyed girlfriend Jeanne(Marika Green who for all the world looks EXACTLY like Natalie Portman here)who tries to look the other way.
The sleeper pace and deadpan tone make you wonder if this is truly the first indie film made(at least in spirit.). Leonce-Henri Burel's cause-and-effect cinematography is absolutely beautiful, and the pickpocketing scenes themselves are about as nerve-racking as you could ask.
9.0
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